Jimmy D. Nakayama

Jimmy D. Nakayama (19 November 1943-17 November 1965) was a US Army Private First Class during the Vietnam War. He was killed in a friendly fire incident at the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965.

Biography
Jimmy D. Nakayama was born in Rigby, Idaho in 1943 to a family of Japanese descent, and he later joined the US Army, serving in Charlie Company, 8th Engineer Battalion, US 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War. On 15 November 1965, he and another US soldier were severely burned when a misplaced napalm bomb fell on their positions (where they had attempted to dig holes to escape the bomb), and Nakayama died two days later, two days shy of his 22nd birthday.